How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Marx V. High-throughput anatomy: Charting the brain’s networks. Nature. 2012;490:293–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Qaim M, Zilberman D. Yield effects of genetically modified crops in developing countries. Science. 2003;299:900–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Holt BF 3rd, Belkhadir Y, Dangl JL. Antagonistic control of disease resistance protein stability in the plant immune system. Science. 2005;309:929–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sandström M, Jalilehvand F, Persson I, Gelius U, Frank P, Hall-Roth I. Deterioration of the seventeenth-century warship Vasa by internal formation of sulphuric acid. Nature. 2002;415:893–7.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Sestina JE. Planning a Successful Future. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Uckelmann D, Harrison M, Michahelles F, editors. Architecting the Internet of Things. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grzegorzewski P. Algorithms for Trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers Preserving the Expected Interval. In: Bouchon-Meunier B, Magdalena L, Ojeda-Aciego M, Verdegay J-L, Yager RR, editors. Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 85–98.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Plans Unveiled For A Floating Future City [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/plans-unveiled-floating-future-city/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Student Loan Repayment Program: OPM Could Build on Its Efforts to Help Agencies Administer the Program and Measure Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Jul. Report No.: GAO-05-762.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Araki PR. Golden Years Home Residential Care Facility for the Elderly [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Walsh MW. Struggling Puerto Rico Defaults on Its Debt Payments. New York Times. 2016 Jan 5;B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry
Abbreviation	Indian J. Clin. Biochem.
ISSN (print)	0970-1915
ISSN (online)	0974-0422
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry

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